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People are speedrunning FL Studio: meet extreme DAW sports
If you haven’t been following the FL Studio speedrun phenomenon, you’re in for a treat – and it’s had a big week with a new record holder on a song that was supposed to have begun as a joke. (Whoops.) So yeah, nerds, if you thought you could escape competitive sports by using DAWs – think again.
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Avid, makers of Pro Tools, Media Composer, Sibelius, will go to private equity
As expected, media tech giant Avid is ending its life as a NASDAQ-listed public company and selling to private equity, in a $1.4 billion all-cash acquisition by STG.
Peter Kirn - August 10, 2023
Motion Music tech Software Tech
A musical parkour course through the urban environment: Guy LaBorde
Oh, it’s like parkour! Suddenly, it clicks – organic ambient textures quickly juxtaposed with broken beats and forward propulsion of drum’n’bass. Leap from surface to surface with the just-released sounds of young, rising Sierra Nevada-born talent Guy LaBorde. Guy actually comes to us from legendary producer King Britt, who’s now teaching at University of California […]
2020 is the insane, single-window beat machine from the future – and it’s landed on macOS
Peter Kirn - July 20, 2023
Music tech Software Tech
Here’s Ben Burtt breaking down every single iconic sound design from Star Wars, film by film
Peter Kirn - May 4, 2023
Music Music tech Tech
Polyend’s Tracker Mini is a handheld upgrade to the original Tracker
Peter Kirn - April 13, 2023
Gear Music tech Tech
Brahmaputra to AI: debashis sinha on practice, body, humanness, and his double release
Peter Kirn - March 23, 2023
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